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Research In Motion, whose BlackBerry phones pioneered wireless email, no longer holds the commanding heights in the smartphone market. With Android, iOS, and even Windows Phone gaining market share, the Waterloo, Ontario, company finds itself in a battle for relevancy. The past year has been especially hard on the...

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Thorsten Heins defends company less than a week after it revealed an operating loss of $643mCrisis, what crisis? Thorsten Heins, chief executive of BlackBerry maker RIM, told a Canadian radio interviewer that he doesn't believe the company is in a "death spiral" and that "there's nothing wrong with the company...

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Struggling smartphone company says it will return to focus on business clients and employees who buy phones for workThe BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion, is to pull back from trying to compete with Apple's iPhone and the Android mobile platform and instead return to its original focus on business users.The...

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Attempting to get the company back on the right track, RIM has announced the appointment of former Sony Mobile Communications VP Kristian Tear as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Lightsquared executive Frank Boulben as Chief Marketing Officer. RIM, which has been derided for its recent marketing campaign that...

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First promised well over a year ago, the LTE version of Research In Motion’s PlayBook has, like so many of the company’s products, been delayed to the point of disinterest. But the device is still top of mind at RIM and is evidently headed down the company’s product pipeline. During...

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Apple's iPhone takes the lead ahead of RIM, as BlackBerry maker sees phone sales dwindleApple displaced BlackBerry-maker RIM as the best-selling smartphone maker in the UK in 2011, according to figures from the research company Gartner.The data flatly contradict RIM's claims earlier in February that it had secured the top...

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RIM made an unprecedented move earlier this week when it gave away pre-production BlackBerry 10 hardware to developers, but it was a smart one. In order to develop for a brand new operating system and help grow develop support for a new platform, you need to be able to test...

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Research in Motion’s leadership change was a long time coming not because its former co-CEOs refused to cede power, but because there was no one inside the company or out who was capable of running it properly — until now. Seriously? Seriously, says RIM director Roger Martin, who scoffs at...

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The shakeup at RIM continued this week with the departure of two more executives following a poor Q4 earnings call. Reuters and Bloomberg report that senior vice president Alan Brenner and BlackBerry Messenger VP Alistair Mitchell are leaving the company. The exit of both executives is only the latest...

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Canadian company's deterioration gathers pace, with the BlackBerry maker announcing worse than expected lossesResearch In Motion's dramatic deterioration has gathered pace, with the maker of BlackBerry announcing worse than expected losses and 5,000 new job cuts.The Canadian company behind what was once the world's most popular smartphone appeared trapped in...

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Analysts, investors, and the wireless industry at large are bracing for what should be an interesting fiscal Q4 2012 earnings call from RIM tomorrow, the company's first full reported quarter since CEO Thorsten Heins took over for Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis in January. Of course, Heins hasn't had...

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Research in Motion talked to private equity firm Silver Lake Partners last year about going private, but talks broke down over valuation. Speaking on Bloomberg West this afternoon, reporter John Erlichman said a source with "direct knowledge" told him the talks happened before current CEO Thorstein Heins took over in...

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RIM has reportedly set up a "BlackBerry Server" in Mumbai to better enable the "lawful access" of email and BBM messages for the Indian Government. Similar to RIM's somewhat contentious issues in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, the company finds itself caught between companies that want to keep email encrypted...

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Fortune’s curated selection of tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day. * The Verge gives at a long look at Research in Motion’s rise and decline: how it was built and how former co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie lost their...

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RIM recorded poor fiscal fourth quarter results that saw a major upheaval at the company. In the wake of a 25 percent year-to-year drop in revenue to $4.2 billion and a $125 million loss, former co-CEO Jim Balsillie has resigned from the company's board of directors. No explanation was given...

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It’s a little stunning to contemplate how wrong things have gone for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in just the first month of 2012, as the company hopes to put a disastrous January in the rear-view mirror with perhaps another tear-jerking Super Bowl ad this Sunday. Larry Page and Sergey Brin...

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The RIM co-chief executives and co-chairmen got plenty right but also thought the iPhone would be a 'challenge' to usersMike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie were the co-chief executives and co-chairmen of Research In Motion (RIM) from its inception in the 1990s through to their resignation from the position in January...

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Research in Motion has lost its home field advantage in Canada to Apple for the first time ever, another sign that RIM is almost hopelessly broken when it comes to smartphone innovation. The long-time co-CEOs of RIM, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, resigned from the company in January after...

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Prior to stepping down from his position as co-CEO at Research in Motion (RIM), Jim Balsillie is reported to have engaged in talks with numerous high-profile mobile carriers around the world in the hope of securing deals that would see rival mobile devices owners connect to its proprietary networks. Sources...

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TORONTO (Reuters) - Blackberry maker Research In Motion Ltd is losing two more senior executives as the money-losing company embarks on a strategic overhaul that its new chief executive says could result in its sale. Alan Brenner, a senior vice president for the BlackBerry platform, will leave after a...

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A board member of Research in Motion offers an interesting new take on the company's implosion. There was no way to avoid disaster, the board member says, because the two co-CEOs who flew RIM into a mountain were absolutely the best people for the job. The Globe and Mail:...

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When Research In Motion’s long time co-chairmen and co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie relinquished their management roles earlier this year, their incentive to do so was more than just an angry mob of shareholders and critics calling for their ouster. It was money. Nearly $12 million in combined...

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About four years ago I visited Waterloo, Canada. The main purpose of the trip was to visit the headquarters of Research In Motion, the now-floundering maker of the BlackBerry line of smartphones. RIM was at that point at the zenith of its power. Its share price earlier that summer had...

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In business, complacency kills, as the competition is not only trying to innovate faster, they're ready to snatch up members of your devoted tribe.Research in Motion has certainly seen better days. Last Thursday, the company announced its first quarterly loss in seven years. By Friday, industry analysts were writing its...

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Analysts claim Research In Motion will eventually fail if its loss-making ways continue"As nice as the Apple iPhone is, it poses a real challenge to its users," explained Jim Balsillie in November 2007, when Apple's touchscreen device had been on sale only a few months. "Try typing a web key...

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One half of RIM's former co-CEO pairing, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, is today reported to have actively pursued a strategy of "radical" change for RIM in the days and months preceding his resignation as CEO. According to Reuters, RIM was engaged in negotiations with carriers around the globe...

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It sure does pay well to manage a company's decline. After stepping down earlier this year, RIM's former co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie were given a combined payout from the company of about $12 million, AllThingsD reports. SEC filings show that Balsillie received a payout of $7.93 million for...

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Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie was pushing for a big change in the company's operations just before he left, Reuters reports. Balsillie wanted to sell access to RIM's network to carriers. The carriers could then sell that to consumers. Here's Reuters: The plan would have let the carriers use...

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It was a bit of a surprise when former Research in Motion co-chief, Jim Balsillie, resigned from the company at the end of March, but a new report today offers some insight into his departure. Balsillie was working on radically reinventing RIM by opening up its network and services...

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While RIM can’t seem to do anything right as of late, the company has apparently mastered the art of the exit payout. Just ask former RIM co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, who are set to receive a combined payout of $12 million for agreeing to step down, The Globe...